The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year.
In total, 1422 markers passed the neutrality test, suggesting that these markers are not under strong selection and are suitable for population genomic analyses that usually require neutral markers.
In November, President Obama called on the FCC to pass the strongest Net Neutrality rules possible.
This morning, proposed rules regarding net neutrality passed the FCC on a vote of three to two, as expected.
In 2011 Upton sponsored a bill disapproving the 2010 net neutrality rules that passed the House but languished in the Senate.
Though often underreported, Obama spoke frequently about his commitment to blocking further media consolidation, fostering more independent and diverse media, ensuring universal high-speed Internet access, and "taking a back seat to no one" in passing "Net Neutrality" laws to prevent Internet providers like Comcast and AT&T from creating fast and slow lanes on the Internet.
The New York University School of Law's Institute for Policy Integrity bemoaned [PDF] the fact that the FCC passed Net Neutrality not by "[invoking] it more robust regulating powers," but that it "based the new rule on legal authority that was called into serious doubt by court decision earlier this year making the long term prospects for the rule quite poor".
Obama's administration made good on his pledge to protect the open internet, passing strong net neutrality protections in 2015.
We must protect free speech on the Internet and pass "Net Neutrality" laws to keep the phone and cable companies from becoming gatekeepers who decide which content gets preferential treatment.
The FCC passed net neutrality regulations this year on a party-line vote of 3 to 2, reclassifying broadband under Title II of the Communications Act.
